Posted on 04/25/2022 12:01:07 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Intelligence officials had gathered to brief select members of Congress on future threats to U.S. elections when a key lawmaker in the room, No. 3 House Republican Elise Stefanik of New York, tried to move the discussion to a new topic: Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Stefanik, who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, asked the officials during the April 1 briefing whether they had any evidence of Russian involvement in the release of Biden’s laptop to the news media in the fall of 2020 — a possibility floated by high-ranking former government officials in the weeks before the presidential election. Intelligence officials told Stefanik the question would be better answered by law enforcement.
As Republicans prepare for a possible return to power amid rising hopes of winning the House and the Senate in the November elections, they are laying the groundwork to make Hunter Biden and his business dealings a central target of their investigative and oversight efforts.
The White House in turn is preparing to defend the Democratic president from any allegations of wrongdoing and make the case that Republicans are driven by opportunism. Democrats are likely to point out how Republicans did not seek investigations into President Donald Trump’s own business pursuits in Russia and China or into the foreign dealings of his children and son-in-law while they held key campaign or White House roles.
For now, the Biden administration and many top Democrats are not commenting publicly on Hunter Biden. But the White House has already reassigned communications staff to prepare to respond to GOP investigations of Hunter Biden and other likely targets, including the origins of the coronavirus and the American withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Just like Obamacare was last time?
Sure he is. Repubs had both houses of congress and did nothing. They sat back, and are still sitting back, while the Judicial branch is being used against anyone that does not toe the party line. Case in point, Trump and the Jan 6th protesters being treated as terrorist. Damn bush and the republican party for the patriot act, nsa and tsa and dhs.
Better grab his passport or lock ‘im up...without Joe he’s a flight risk the size of a 747.
“Just like Obamacare was last time?”
Politicians protect their own because they never know when it will be their turn to be under the microscope. Of course that means nothing will be done.
Oh please. The Pubes will immediately reach across the aisle. The Jan 6 investigations will also continue. And Fauci will be deemed King.
And the conservative voters won’t even be given the courtesy of a reach around.
Baloney...they’ll put everything in a dumpster..and try to get something done instead.
Lots of talk, won’t be a lick of action by these spineless twits. I’ve heard all this BS before from the congressional GOP. I give you: McConnell, McCarthy, Gowdy, Linda Graham, McCain, Ryan etc... as prime examples of the congressional GOP in action when in the majority.
Gowdy at least had the dog and pony show hearings, Flimsey Grahamnesty just promises them.
Here we go with the MSM fear mongering about those politically motivated, mean Republicans. Gotta scare the Independents and the emotionally driven suburban soccer moms.
McCarthy and McConnell will soon step up to the nearest microphone and pledge, using their first-born children as collateral, that they will not investigate or go after Hunter Biden. Watch. I have seen this movie.
Obama was a foreign-born person ineligible for the presidency and nothing was done except to disparage people who pointed this out as, “birthers”.
The 2020 election was wrought with outcome changing fraud, and nothing was ever done, except to disparage those who want a full-on investigation.
Hillary still walks free.
No one, not one person, was ever fired over Benghazi.
Yeah, tell me how Issa, or Gowdy, or any other is going to get to the bottom of the Hunter Biden scandal. No, if Republicans don’t shut this down soon, then they will use this as election fodder for the base, telling them, “This time we’re serious.”
Pffft... what a joke.
Amen to that. Turned out the patriot act was as bad as the most extreme among us said it would be... and then some. A "good-intentioned" totalitarian horror.
Obama may have been born in Hawaii and he would still be ineligible as would anyone born with foreign nationality from a foreign parent.
Still waiting for Hillary to be locked up.
More incentive for voter fraud. Republicans should keep their stupid mouths SHUT. Never reveal strategies or intentions. Imagine these morons a week before D-Day?
Hey Republicans, wrong Biden!
They are trying to cause fear in ‘soft’ Democrats and unpolitical voters to keep them from voting Red. Worried there will be chaos via political retaliation. Yet, it’s projection. This is exactly what Democrats have done and continue to do. Instead, perhaps this needs to be relabeled as taking responsibility and accountability. Also, republicans don’t need to put all their cards on the table right now. Stay focused on how they plan to undo and correct the failures of this administration. Democrats know the nation is ‘chaos’ed’ out. And that’s exactly why they are saying this over and over again. But, again. We are actually currently living it via Biden
Oh, so now we're kicking it to law enforcement after everything else for the last 2+ years was "a matter for the intelligence community." The old Potomac 2-step.
“The Republicans continue to focus on conspiracy theories for which there is no evidence rather than helping hard working American families”
Unfortunately, most lawyers are on the commie side.
If we had more lawyers on our side, we could be suing the pants of clintons, obama and bidens like they’ve been doing w/trump.
It should be Joe Biden
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